Tomorrow's Dawn (Book 2): Fractured Paradise by Wohlrab Jeff

Author:Wohlrab, Jeff [Wohlrab, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic
Published: 2019-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Jensen winced a little bit as they passed the sign for North Georgia Technical College. He instinctively looked to his right, as though he’d see Todd there. He wasn’t sure if he was expecting live Todd, dead Todd, or Todd in a body bag, the way he’d last seen him. But he only saw Sheila, no ghosts, no Todd, not even blood. She was idly playing with the set of huge bolt cutters they’d brought along.

Behind him, Aaron was in his small electric sports car with Emmy, and behind them were Daniel and Brent in the multicam tub. They were towing the open trailer, which had some battery-operated tools, a couple block and tackle sets, chains, cables, some metal hitches, and two pairs of axles they’d cobbled together from trailer parts they’d salvaged from nearby farms.

The remainder of the crew was back at camp pulling security detail and trying to level off areas in which to place containers if they were able to retrieve any. If this trip failed, they could still attempt either of the other two plans. Several of them had lobbied for the idea of tearing down other cabins and rebuilding them on site instead, but Brent had reasoned with them. “If nothing else, this will give us immediate shelter while we try to build foundations and rebuild the cabins. That will take months, maybe years to do. If we get the cabins finished, we can use these for secure storage.”

The leaves and pine needles spread across the road were another reminder about just how bad things had gotten. Before, there would have been enough traffic to keep the roads clear. Now, the wind blew leaves and branches onto the roadways and they stayed. There was some evidence that cars had been by this way, but they were on a divided highway that resembled a little-used logging road. There were still people around, but they seemed to be just as much in hiding as their group.

Jessica had lobbied strongly to come along on this expedition. She was sick of being left back at camp while Jensen and Daniel went off with a few others to do ‘hero work’ as she called it. In the end, she had lost. The potentially for injury while trying to move the multi-ton containers was extremely high, so Sheila was along. They didn’t know what they’d find in the containers, so Emmy went in hopes of finding something that could be used for crops. Brent was along because he was the only one with construction experience and would be the one to try to assemble the makeshift trailers. Aaron was the only one who knew where the containers were.

When they promised to bring her along on the second run, she seemed somewhat mollified. They intended to bring back as many as they could. Not only could they provide immediate shelter and storage, but Jensen hoped to set at least one up as a ‘cadillac,’ which was what he called the containerized units he’d used for showers and bathrooms when he was forward deployed at some locations.

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